The olympic wrestling of Gunadule children in the community of Koskuna, Veracruz, West Panama

Abstract

This brief article explains a sociocultural cycle of the Gunadule People in the Isthmus ofPanama with historical points of view and anthropological studies of the population sincethe arrival of Europeans to inhabited and populated lands in the West. These capacitiesof social defense and of the native people in preserving and reserving their ancestralvalues, customs, traditions, and mother tongue in the Isthmus of Panama. The objectiveof this essay is to describe how the combat sport of the ancient and contemporaryOlympic wrestling improves the development and strengthen the cognitive abilities andphysical capacities of the Dule children of the Koskuna area in Veracruz, Panama West.With the vision of ex-athletes of the Olympic Wrestling Gunadules and from my personalexperiences and knowledge contribute to the new generation of the Gunadule People,giving values to new sports to the Panamanian Olympic Wrestling at a national andinternational level.

We sabga gi an sunmagnai gunadule neggweburgi, igi bannamagi anbiggusmala, igiwagsibbuganbo ulusmala, igi enabbabin ulusmala, e daedbin, egayaburbabin, nabiryodse e doddogan durdagmogaga. We sabga an narmagsa abin abin urwed gisunmaggega, igi we urwed gwaluleali negsaglaun, igi we urwed gunadule doddoganbendaggali Koskuna, Veracruz, Panamá Oeste gi mamalad. An sugmagsa gunadule abinabin ulusmaladbo, auggi andule ulusga wusmosoggu an narmagsa igi an negdagsa, igian nabir gusa abin abin urwedga. Nabir yodse doddogan durdagmogaga, nabir naegaeneganba.